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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

— Mike Leigh

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

— Michael Caine

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

— Mario Andretti

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

— Sally Rand

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

— Les Paul

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

— Jackie Mason

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

— Aaron Peirsol

I always work with 18 friends.

— Ingmar Bergman

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

— Utah Phillips

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

— Carl Karcher

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

— Johnny Ramone